Touche, R (on the application of) v HM Coroners Court Of St Pancras & Anor, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, June 22, 2000, [2000] EWHC Admin 359

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Touche, R (on the application of) v HM Coroners Court Of St Pancras & Anor, Court of Appeal - Administrative Court, June 22, 2000, [2000] EWHC Admin 359

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Case No: CO/4347/99 & CO/0505/00

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE

COURT OF APPEAL (QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION)

DIVISIONAL COURT

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Thursday 22nd June 2000

B e f o r e :

LORD JUSTICE KENNEDY

and

MR JUSTICE MORISON

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Ex parte TOUCHE

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Philip Havers QC (instructed by Messrs Alexander Harris for the applicant)

Terence Coghlan QC and Ben Collins (instructed by Hempsons for the respondents)

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Judgment

As Approved by the Court

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Lord Justice Kennedy:

This is a judgment of the Court

1. Introduction

We have before us an application for Judicial Review of the refusal of H.M. Coroner for Inner London North District to hold an inquest touching the death of Laura Touche, and an application under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 for an order that an inquest be held. It is common ground between counsel that the second application adds nothing of significance of the first, so the case has been argued and will be dealt with in this judgment as an application for Judicial Review.

2. Circumstances of Death.

Mrs Touche was admitted to the Portland Hospital, London at 6.45 pm on Saturday 6th February 1999 when she ...

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